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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914 - 2005) Waiting
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1965. 305x292 mm; 12x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Second edition (of 2), printed recently. Signed, titled, inscribed "2nd Ed" and numbered 1/30 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ernest Crichlow became a painter during the Harlem-Renaissance, and a printmaker during the WPA. He taught at the Harlem Community Center, and worked for the Greensboro Art Project in North Carolina. He made his mark depicting the racial conflicts and violence blacks faced; Waiting was made at the height of the Civil Rights struggle. Crichlow was criticized for focusing on these harsher subjects, but he said, "This is the thing that I feel most at home with."
